Those with early risers...

My DD is a super early riser, and it's wearing me thin! She rarely sleeps past 5:30 a.m., and once in a blue moon goes until 6. Anyone else have a LO getting up this early all the time? I wouldn't mind if I had to be up & out of the house, but I'm a SAHM. I don't want her to "sleep in" or anything, but would love to get to 6-6:30 a.m. regularly. She's always asleep by 8 p.m., and still takes 2 naps. I feel like she'd sleep later in the morning if I could get her to 1 afternoon nap after lunch. I've tried transitioning her to that, but she's cranky by 10 or so and still needs her morning nap. Any advice to get her to sleep later? TIA ladies!

Does she sleep with you or in her own room? I know my LO wakes up sometimes really early, around 5:30am, and I will listen and he will make a few noises and then lay back down and go to sleep. But he is in his own room and does not see me to be able to yell at me to get him. I don't know if that makes a difference or not though.

Like PP said maybe going to bed a little bit later would help. Good Luck!

We have the same problem! This morning it was 4:40 though...Thats after she woke and cried for a few minutes around 3:30. The problem is she is ready to go back down 3 hours after she wakes up, so she is back down for a nap, and it is only 7:30. I'm sorry I don't have any advice for you...My daughter is my 2nd baby, and I never dealt with this with my son. In fact, he is the 12-hour sleeper at night! I stay-at-home too, so I feel your pain! Hopefully some other moms can give us some good tips to try!!! Good luck!

No way. Abby would be a grumpy mess all day. She seems to need more sleep. If putting her to bed later doesn't work, maybe try earlier. It sounds weird, but we slowly moved Abbys bedtime earlier when she wasn't sttn until we found a time that seemed best for her. She goes to sleep on a normal night at 7 pm and sleeps until at least 7 am. She is down to pretty much one nap, with sometimes a little catnap in the late morning.

DS rarely sleeps past 5:30. He goes to bed at 6pm, but putting him to bed later doesn't affect his wake up time- it just makes him crankier. He's transitioning to 1 nap, so right now his nap is 10:30ish to 12:30ish. I'm trying to push his nap back to 11 and then to 11:30, but it's hard to keep him up between 10:30 and 11.

Unfortunately, I don't have any advice. I'm hoping it's a phase and he'll start sleeping later again soon. You're not alone though!

My son goes to bed between 7-8pm and wakes between 5-6am. Also wakes once or twice at night. If i put him to bed any later than 8pm he wakes more at night and wakes up for the day even earlier. I have tried doing just one nap a day and he sleeps even worse. So i will just stick with what sleep we can get :P

A great mama suggested i try room darkening shades which we will be picking up this weekend.So i'm hoping that will get us maybe an extra hour or so since my sons room is sooo bright when he goes to be and wakes up.

We have tried with the later bedtime, no success. She actually seems to sleep worse the later she's up, right along with the whole sleep begets sleep theory. We have room darkening shades, and it's still dark when she wakes up anyway, so it's not that. Maybe we'll start bumping her bedtime up a bit earlier, see where a few days of that gets us. Thanks for the input!

She sleeps in her crib in her own room, has since the day she was born. Sometimes she wakes up and pops right up, crying for us to come get her and other times I can see she's awake (video monitor) and will lay there and play with her stuffies for 15-30 minutes. Not sure what the difference is and why she sometimes is happy to entertain herself and sometimes not.

Plus, we've cut down to 3 nursing sessions a day, eliminating her wake-up session so she wants to eat breakfast right away, and 5:30-6 is so early for breakfast!